Following mishaps involving the Dana Air in recent times, the federal government has ordered a full audit of the operations of the Airline in the country. Recall that on February 8, one of the emergency doors of an aircraft belonging to Dana fell off at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Then, two weeks after, […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, will begin checks of driver’s license across Lagos State. Hyginus Omeje, the state sector commander, FRSC, disclosed this on Saturday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. He however, said that 56, 767 driving licenses were yet to be collected by their owners. While stating that the […]
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The Nigerian Army on Wednesday said its troops killed five Boko Haram insurgents in the ongoing clearance operation in Sambisa Forest. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, said in a statement issued in Maiduguri, that the troops also cleared various enclaves of the insurgents. The Statement: In continuation of […]
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Nigerian and Cameroonian army have killed 35 Boko Haram terrorists and rescued 603 civilians in a joint operation. The joint operation was carried out as part of clearance exercise of troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in troubled North East. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director Public Relations, Theatre Command Operation of Lafiya Dole, said on […]
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With a strong conviction that the Abu Musab Al-Barnawi-led faction of Boko Haram might be responsible for the abduction of Dapchi School Girls, a respected North-East human rights activist, popularly called Mama Boko Haram, Barrister Aisha Alkali Wakil has appealed to the abductors to release the young female captives. Aisha Wakil, a former member of […]
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The Nigerian Police Force and the Army are locked in a war of words over their roles in the kidnap of 110 girls from their secondary school in Dapchi, Yobe State. The Yobe state police command has denied the claim of the army that Dapchi, headquarters of Busari local government was left in its care […]
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Olatokunbo Adesanya, the director of public relations and information at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), on Sunday disclosed that additional air assets have been deployed to the north-east in search of the missing students of Government Girls’ Science Technical College in Dapchi, Borno state. A total of 110 students of the school are reportedly missing […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the military and other security agencies to take charge of Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, recently attacked by Boko Haram insurgents. The President has also directed Minister of Defence, retired Brig-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed and that of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama to visit Dapchi […]
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NPS Decorates 196 Kebbi Prisons Officers The Nigerian Prisons Service, Kebbi State Command, under the able leadership of the Controller of Prisons, CP.SANI ADAMU POTISKUM, has decorated 196 newly promoted officers of the Command with their new ranks on tuesday at the State Prison Headquaters Birnin-Kebbi. The elevated officers were part of those promoted recently […]
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The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau now disguises as a woman to escape being captured. A counter-terrorism troop launched by the army had cleared the terrorists’ camps in Samibsa forest, rescuing civilians held hostages by the terrorists. The troop also recovered arms, ammunition, Improvised Explosives Devices, IED, factories and making […]
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